Abducted Dagestanis forced to confess to terrorist acts

Arsen Gasanbekov, one of the three Dagestanis detained in Chechnya on June 26 in a vehicle in which six kilogram of trinitrotoluene was discovered, was on June 28 delivered from Grozny, Chechnya, to Makhachkala, Dagestan, having given a written undertaking not to leave the place and produce himself to the police on request.

Caucasian Knot's correspondent has been able to find out that the three detained Dagestanis are residents of Makhachkala who were abducted by strangers in late May. There is information that the name of one of them is Abdulkadyr and the other's name is Mukhamed. The latter is a fourfold karate-do champion of Russia. Russian security agencies have subjected all the three to torture. In this way, they were made to "confess" to being involved in terrorist acts and murders of officers of internal affairs agencies committed in the republic, according to Arsen Gasanbekov. The abducted young men were kept in different places. On June 26, they were brought to a strange place not far from Grozny. There, some people in masks put them into a vehicle, having tied up their hands and feet and blindfolded them, after which they disappeared. In a while, officers of the Goriacheistochninskii Department of Internal Affairs approached the scene and delivered them to the police.

The prosecutor's office of Grozny's Goriacheistochninskii district has presently indicted all the three Dagestanis for preparing an act of terrorism in Chechnya. The case has already been sent to the Grozny district court. However, Chechnya's law enforcement agencies are sure that all the three Dagestanis are not involved in committing terrorist acts and that the court will pass a verdict of not guilty on them, because the young men were beaten beyond recognition when they were detained.